Example sentences of "be an issue " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our need to look more closely at the working relationship is not that strife and strikes are an issue of constant interest , nor that work conflicts are part of the distressing experience of vast numbers . |
| 2 | Royalties are an issue Echo has apparently not resolved . |
| 3 | that people feel are an issue cos together we have to exclude it . |
| 4 | While the main pressure for a common framework for the curriculum emerged from the lead given by DES and HMI , it has also been an issue taken up by academics and some local authorities . |
| 5 | This had not been an issue as long as Edward IV was in good health , and his death was so unexpected that it was not preceded by a political regrouping around the heir . |
| 6 | Testing by employers has been an issue around which , in the past , hostile stereotypes have been constructed . |
| 7 | ( One wonders how much the latter has a bearing on the former , notwithstanding the fact that Riley herself is adamant that being female has not been an issue in her career ) . |
| 8 | What other companies fancifully referred to as ‘ corporate public relations ’ had hardly been an issue at Virgin up till now . |
| 9 | From the point of view of the educational process considered as a cultural experience , this shift would not , in itself , necessarily have been an issue . |
| 10 | Tracing the dollars on an international basis has been an issue from day one . |
| 11 | Where form has been an issue in this tradition , such as with narrative point of view in Henry James , it has been subsumed into more conventional questions such as theme and moral vision : form becomes a means of conveying these other questions . |
| 12 | Extended hours have been an issue that Management is pursuing . |
| 13 | This had not been an issue as long as Edward IV was in good health , and his death was so unexpected that it was not preceded by a political regrouping around the heir . |
| 14 | The ‘ loss ’ of agricultural land has been an issue of debate throughout the postwar period . |
| 15 | The erm , any other areas that I 've drew particular attention as a , as a , key issue is on the matter of er legality and doing work for other bodies , which has been an issue here which er , as you may recall we mentioned that in the last two or three years . |
| 16 | I I would say it 's not been an issue , erm in the small market towns and i the er criterion erm I therefore has not presented problems er to Hambleton . |
| 17 | Thirdly , special educational needs has been an issue for this committee in the past and will no doubt continue to be an issue in the future . |
| 18 | ’ We have no policy on single-sex swimming , as it has never been an issue before and it has always been assumed that all children would swim together . ’ |
| 19 | Er had it been something that you 'd long sought after you know , like like in the mines where it had been an issue for some years ? |
| 20 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 21 | However , though this ‘ looks unlikely to be politically feasible in the short-term it may be an issue for next year when ET is fully established ’ . |
| 22 | That there should be an issue of the Oxford Art Journal devoted to Latin American art is itself testimony to the success of such efforts . |
| 23 | ‘ This will , I suppose , be an issue , but I hope it does n't become a dominant issue , ’ he said . |
| 24 | For the first time in years nuclear weapons could well be an issue at the imminent general election . |
| 25 | Regulation cost continues to be an issue . |
| 26 | The interpretation of wrestling that I treat here as ‘ accepted ’ is presented in Barthes 's own utterance as an absent speech with which he is dissenting — without its existence there would be no need for his interpretation because the meaning of ‘ wrestling ’ would not be an issue . |
| 27 | Women often feel that they are not at risk because they do not feel themselves to be associated with any of the so called ‘ high risk groups ’ and , although we are encouraged to have safer sex , AIDS does not really seem to be an issue for us . |
| 28 | They trudged on , breathing the dust of the dry summer road that had been shuffled up by the boots ahead , and they wondered if there would be an issue of rum before the fighting began , or whether they would be too late for the fighting and would instead be billeted in some soft Belgian village where the girls would flirt and the food would be plentiful . |
| 29 | Apart from power concerns , consistency seems also to be an issue here , with designers preferring not to have to construct composite 5V and 3V boards . |
| 30 | They will be moving towards establishing their own families and racial background will be an issue ’ ( p. 136 ) . |